Hard-Ons/Jerry A. - Hard-Ons/Jerry a. - Blue - VINYL LP

Limited vinyl LP pressing.

French gonzo-synth punks and intergalactic scuzzball house band. Miscreants from a future generation. Clad in white from head to toe, bug-eye shades peer out through a dirty water fog. They play a blistering set of songs that will propel them through the atmosphere on a fix of adrenalin in 2019. Is it the past or the future, for the present seems far away? This second album is a breakthrough moment, when the crawling Lo Spider once again takes control of this paranoiac, extra-terrestrial-abducted and abducting quartet and bounces the finished 12 doses into the hands of garage master Jim Diamond for mastering. The result? Another bombastic, swirling garage acid trip through the stratosphere. Insane flights in the spiked punch bowl that is our galaxy. Gonzo space punk a-go-go. The songs on II fly by full of alien abandon. More new-wave than their debut, but still an intergalactic riot. Europe is on the move, succumbing to the infectious tractor beam-like tunes of The Scaners. All that is left is for the rest of the world to awake from their lucid dream state, shake off their shackles, and take flight.1 Please Abduct Me 2 Catch Up With A UFO 3 Random City 4 Mars Attacks 5 Space X-ploration 6 Galactic Race 7 X-ray Glasses 8 Spin Like A Record 9 Don't Run, We're Your Friends 10 No Panic, No Stress 11 Pesticide Kids 12 Run DD Run

Beloved Australian five-piece POND offer a skerrick of hope in a hostile world with their new record - their 11th - Terrestrials. A cyclone of urgent, scorched earth rock'n'roll, Terrestrials tips the hat to the sounds of then while squarely facing up to the here and now.Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, Terrestrials mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place.Like much of The Pond catalogue, Terrestrials is a record of people and place, of exploring the identity of each, as well as where and how they intersect and interact. Terrestrials twitches with the desperation of people and planet on the brink, but ultimately bets on the beauty of both to prevail.InchThis one is hitting me this morning. It's got all this strutting, preening glam-rock/new wave energy, but it's too weird and oblique to play as pure pastiche.Inch - Stereogum on InchTerrestrialsInch